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-opia

-opia suffix: vision (used to form names of visual defects).

Suffix

-opia

  1. vision (used to form names of visual defects)

Origin of -opia

Attested classically as -ωπία in a few words, such as ἀμβλυωπία (ambluōpía). Apparently equivalent to -οψία (-opsía). By surface analysis, -ope + -ia.

Questions about -opia

What does -opia mean?
-opia means vision (used to form names of visual defects).
What part of speech is -opia?
-opia is a suffix.

Words near -opia in the dictionary

  1. -oomer
  2. -oon
  3. -opamine
  4. -ope
  5. -ophilic
  6. -opia
  7. -opoly
  8. -opsia
  9. -opsis
  10. -opsy
  11. -or

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -opia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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